RECENT & HISTORICAL THREATS TO FREEDOM
It is somehow ironic that the people most eager to verbally endorse liberty and
the constitution and to boast about what a wonderfully free nation we live in
are often the same people who seek to slowly scrape away at that freedom. What
they very often fail to understand is that freedom is ugly. They think that
because freedom is something worth dying for it must be a thing of beauty and
perfection. And so, naturally, those things they find distasteful and abhorrent
they gleefully dismiss as evils not protected by liberty. Living free, however,
is not to live in beauty. It is not poetry incarnate. It is having to listen to
ideas you may find ridiculous. It is tolerating viewpoints you may find
intolerable. It is allowing others to question that which you may take on
faith. It is a system in which majority rules only so long as those rulings do
not infringe upon the freedom and liberty of the minority. It is a very sad statement
on our great nation that in the recent past, the supreme court has had to
strike down legislation passed by the majority of our congress. That means that
a majority of our representation felt comfortable ratifying legislation that
was contrary to the constitution, the very ideals that this country was founded
on. That, to me, is something to fear. When the representation of the people is
no longer concerned with upholding the liberties of those people, what has
happened to our nation? The sites, actions, and/or legislation listed below are
those that attempt to compromise the liberties that most of us hold so dear. I
believe in the rights of these groups to aire their views, but we must insure
that no group, whether a minority or majority, might compromise the freedoms of
the rest. As sad a commentary as it is, I believe that a good many people would
easily trade their freedom for safety, prosperity, and conformity.
HISTORICAL
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Sedition Act of 1798 |
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MARSHALL ROUNDUPS |
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INTERNMENT Executive
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RECENT
A Tangled Web: A History of CIA Complicity in Drug :part of congressional record under INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1999 (House of Representatives - May 07, 1998) Had to provide a copy as cannot link directly. If you wish to see the original, go to bottom of page, hit home, and search for "Meyer Lansky". Free Speech Responsibility green ribbon decency censorship campaign : believe in upholding the 1st amendment so long as it is "decent" and "responsible". Otherwise it should be censored. Huh?!! Dark Alliance: The Crack Explosion The now famous San Jose Mercury report detailing the C.I.A. connection to the crack epidemic. If these guys don't work for us, who the hell do they work for? Drug War Masquerade San Antonio Current article on the accidental marine corp killing of a Texas youth while fighting the "drug war". This was the first ever marine corp killing of a citizen on U.S. soil."For more than a century, stationing U.S. soldiers in American backyards was against the law. The Posse Comitatus Act, passed by Congress in 1878, made it a felony to deputize the armed services for domestic duty.Congress began chipping away at Posse Comitatus in 1982, the same year then-Vice President Bush was put in charge of the War on Drugs -- with a defense bill that allowed the military to loan equipment and facilities to civilian law enforcement agencies.Though it no longer exists, this separation of military and police powers is still touted in high school civics textbooks as a hallmark of U.S. society and democratic ideals." H.R.2922 "To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Defense toassign members of the Armed Forces, under certain circumstances and subject to certain conditions, to assist the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the United States Customs Service in the performance of border protection functions."
Final Report for the Independent Council for Iran/Contra Matters Kerry Senate Committee Report : Investigation of CIA/drug/contra ring. Freedom of Religion Act : would allow prayer and/or "witnessing" for anyone working in a public building (school, fed buildings, etc.) That's on the clock folks. It would allow religious indoctrination of students by teachers regardless of the wishes of the parents. It also describes religion as belief in god. That explicitly denies this "freedom of religion" to those belonging to spiritual sects that do not necessarily avow a belief in a central deity. Anti Flag Desecration Act : like it or hate it, desecration of a flag is a free expression of anti-government sentiment. Bowers vs. Hardwick Case : Supreme court found GA man "guilty" of consensual sodomy. By the way, sodomy is ANY form of sex not intent on conception. FCC Spectrum Giveaway : FCC will allot more frequencies only to existing TV license holders(ie. Disney, Westinghouse, etc.). |
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